Avira takes forever to scan

[JW The Computer Guy]

Today I got a computer in, and I had Avira run a scan on it overnight. In the morning I went and looked at it and it was at 21.7&. I'm not able to find anything on google about this, so I'm thinking its the hard drive. BTW the hard drive is an 80GB Maxtor with only 20GB used space. SMART says the drive is in perfect condition, no bad sectors, no spin-up issues. I know Maxtor has a bad reputation, but the computer runs fine, Malwarebytes scans in 1 hour, SuperAntiSpyware scans in about 3. I was going to image it to one of my drives to see if it was really the drive, however all my drives are 40GB and under, and are also mostly Maxtor drives.

 

[shamrin]

Today I got a computer in, and I had Avira run a scan on it overnight. In the morning I went and looked at it and it was at 21.7&. I'm not able to find anything on google about this, so I'm thinking its the hard drive. BTW the hard drive is an 80GB Maxtor with only 20GB used space. SMART says the drive is in perfect condition, no bad sectors, no spin-up issues. I know Maxtor has a bad reputation, but the computer runs fine, Malwarebytes scans in 1 hour, SuperAntiSpyware scans in about 3. I was going to image it to one of my drives to see if it was really the drive, however all my drives are 40GB and under, and are also mostly Maxtor drives.

I've had Avira be particularly slow on some machines for the following:

• Lot's of archives that it's opening up, it seems to go slowly on these
• Slow drive. You've got at 80GB Maxtor? I'll bet it's old and tired and about half the speed of a new Western Digital
• No reason, it's just slow

Avira just had a new release, if you're on the new one, maybe it's slower.

 

[JW The Computer Guy]

I've had Avira be particularly slow on some machines for the following:

• Lot's of archives that it's opening up, it seems to go slowly on these
• Slow drive. You've got at 80GB Maxtor? I'll bet it's old and tired and about half the speed of a new Western Digital
• No reason, it's just slow

Avira just had a new release, if you're on the new one, maybe it's slower.

I'm gonna talk the client into getting a new drive, the drive is about 8 years old.

 

[shamrin]

I'm gonna talk the client into getting a new drive, the drive is about 8 years old.

I've found HD Tune is a nice program to get some metrics on disk speed. I've seen quite a few of these older drives test at just 50%-75% of the speed of current drives.

 

[Martyn]

I've found HD Tune is a nice program to get some metrics on disk speed. I've seen quite a few of these older drives test at just 50%-75% of the speed of current drives.

Yes quite a difference in the speed, I do this.

 

[Rosco]

I've had Avira be particularly slow on some machines for the following:

• Lot's of archives that it's opening up, it seems to go slowly on these
  

this is most likely the case had a newer computer 3 months old come in yesterday. so many files it just took longer. and i have noticed it is slower since the last update!

 

[JW The Computer Guy]

Well guys I replaced the drive and its doing the same thing. Do you think it could be caused by corruption? I'm going to run another checkdisk on it.

I scanned my drives with Avira and they scanned quickly, so it's not a glitch.

 

[shamrin]

Well guys I replaced the drive and its doing the same thing. Do you think it could be caused by corruption? I'm going to run another checkdisk on it.

I scanned my drives with Avira and they scanned quickly, so it's not a glitch.

I haven't had this happen for a long time, when it has become impractical to use Avira, I've just switched to Avast (or MSE if you have to). As with many computer problems, the shortest route is sometimes a detour.

 

[JW The Computer Guy]

It was caused by corruption, I wiped the drive and its all good now.

I appreciate your responses.